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George Beech

We’ve been doing a lot of talking about some of the growing pains we have been having with our database server. And how we are going to deal with it. Well we will be moving Stack Overflow’s database to its own hardware this Friday (2011-03-11).

When?

2011-03-11 9:00pm Eastern (2011-03-12 02:00 UTC)

Why?

To Make everything MORE AWESOME

What?

2 new Dell R710′s

2x Intel Xeon Processor X5680 3.33 GHz

96GB of RAM

6 Intel X25-E SSD’s in a RAID 10

What will this mean?

First, we will be putting Stack Overflow into Read Only mode again for the maintenance – just like we did when we went down the Oregon trail.
Once the migration is complete, Stack Overflow will be on its own DB pair, and can run free, and the rest of the Stack Exchange sites don’t have to contend with the Megalopolis for database time, making them MORE AWESOME as well.

That’s what I love about the StackExchange community — even the grammar/spelling “trolls” are polite and helpful.

Robert

Death to EXPERTS EXCHANGE!

Edward Ishaq

They used to come up on many searches I did but not any more now that we have stackoverflow and the rest …

http://twitter.com/glenneroo glenneroo

They also used to not be such douchebags and only required a (free) login to read answers. Now they require you to pay to even see any answers, unless you were one of the few who contributed x-thousand answers.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Louis-Waweru/713191712 Louis Waweru

…answers per month.

Guest

…or know to press End and just read it for free.

Gareth

…but only if you’ve clicked through from a Google search result.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EZDRKILV4KYS33YNZG4BWIV5RY EJB

With the new version of chrome (released yesterday), you can block a site from showing up in your future google searches – experts-exchange was the very first one I blocked – finally.

nikic

That’s nothing to do with Chrome. That’s a Google feature. It’ll work in every newer browser.

Sam

hoe many more hours we have from NOW?

dforck42

Is Brent O helping with the move?

http://blog.stackoverflow.com George Beech

As usual he gave us a ton of help on the planning and checked our work.

http://flowdev.co.uk/ Oliver Caldwell

Looks like this will be one hell of a boost

MORE AWESOME

http://www.hydroxic-acid.com Hydroxic-Acid

StackOverflow++

http://www.shrinkrays.net Chris

Disqus was so crappy 1 year ago, now the entire internet uses it.

Anyway…I think a stackoverflow question – bounty 1000 – to build a custom database just for the SO format (open source’d obviously) would be an interesting idea. Even if you never implement it, the potential there is big

http://blog.gockelhut.com/ Travis

What makes SO so unique that it would require a custom solution?

http://www.shrinkrays.net Chris

Have a look at the schema, most of the data is a page in SQL Server

asaikali

nice, machines what database server do you run? It would be great to know what technologies and platform the stackoverflow uses.